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US 2016/0080849 A1Published application
Acoustic device
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorTomoyoshi IKEDA
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Abstract
The disclosed acoustic device includes a holder 60 that has one end abutting the inside of an inferior antihelix crus and other end abutting a depression between a tragus and an antitragus of a user's ear and a vibrator 10 that is held by the holder 60 and, based on an audio signal, expands and contracts in a direction intersecting a direction of connecting the one end and the other end, and by the expansion and the contraction, causes the ear to vibrate.
Claims14
An acoustic device, comprising:
- a holder that has one end abutting inside of an inferior antihelix crus and other end abutting a depression between a tragus and an antitragus of a user's ear;
- and
- a sound generator that is held by the holder and allows sound to be heard by the user in response to an audio signal.
An acoustic device, comprising:
- a holder that has one end abutting inside of an inferior antihelix crus and other end abutting a depression between a tragus and an antitragus of a user's ear;
- and
- a vibrator that is held by the holder and, based on an audio signal, expands and contracts in a direction intersecting a direction of connecting the one end and the other end, and by the expansion and the contraction, causes the ear to vibrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.